I'm Chris Cooper. Mentor, coach, trainer and trainer.
When I was 28 I bought a flat in Ealing in West London.
For me, coming from the North of England, this was a big deal. Hey I was a property owner now, and in the London area, at a time when house-prices were pretty high and moving out of the provinces was tough to achieve. I'd worked my socks off to earn the deposit and get enough brownie points with the bank to convince them to give me a mortgage. I should have felt like I was on top of the world, with a big achievement behind me and all kinds of things to look forward to in a bright and glorious future.
But what should have been an exciting new beginning was overshadowed.
I'd just split up with my girlfriend after 6 years, I felt let down and betrayed.
Instead of thinking about how thrilled I was at the success of buying my first property, I couldn't stop thinking of what had happened.
My friends listened to me complaining non-stop for longer than they should have had to. Eventually though, one of them cracked.
The conversation went something like this:
Friend: "Look Chris, you've been in this mess for long enough. Stop moaning and do something about it! You've always been proactive before and looked for solutions. Why don't you go on one of those self-development programmes that's designed to help you work out who you are and where you want to get to?"
Me (shocked): "Er, well when you put it like that. Maybe your right…"
The course changed my life. It forced me to take a good look at who I was and how I wanted to live my life.
Now feeling very different and much more optimistic about the future, I wrote myself out a list of goals for the next 12 months, and a vision of what I wanted when I was 40.
Why 40? - Because I was never ever going to be that old .... so I could be completely outrageous!
I dreamed of a beautiful home in the country with 5 bedrooms, a lovely wife who I could trust, two children, financial freedom, my own business doing what I love, great holidays, a dog called Barney, and owning a beautiful electric guitar that I'd play for my guests and they would actually enjoy it!
Why had I not done this before?
Because before then I had believed what my parents had told me - that 'I want never gets'.
That was a harsh belief, but up to that point many things in my life had reinforced that way of thinking.
It took that self-development course and that long, cold look at my beliefs, hopes and desires to make me realise that I could actually change my mindset. I wanted that vision for when I reached 40. I just needed to develop myself and go all out to make it happen.
THE 40TH BIRTHDAY PARTY
Now we move forward in time.
I can't believe it. I am 40 and it is my party!
I am at the very home that I dreamed of dressed in a crazy hippy outfit, with a wonderful wife, young son tugging at my trousers, lots of money having just sold my shares in a company I had been a founder of. I had shifted the focus of my career and now had a business doing what I love and I played my custom built Paul Reed Smith guitar for the crowd. If you have seen Carlos Santana he plays a very similar guitar with mother of pearl swallows inlayed into the fret board.
I was playing a Whole Lotta Love by Led Zeppelin. And everyone was singing 'A whole lot of love'. Then someone changed the lyrics and the lyrics changed to 'You're Past It'!
At a slight low point at the thought of hitting 40 I'd worked out that based on the average life expectancy for a male of 77 years I had 13700 days left until I hit the average so who cares. You are never past it until you reach -1! And I played on and had a great time.
That night my Dad whispered in my ear ' you are so lucky, everything always goes right for you'. I can remember him saying the complete opposite a number of years previously. Funny how people can forget.
When l look back to the bleak early days of my Ealing flat, I could really appreciate the progress I had made with my life.
That's when the idea for Be More. Achieve More. hit me.
I want EVERYONE to realize that you can have what you want if you set a clear vision, put your mind to it and move towards what you want.
Now I spend much of my time helping people like you, who are certain that there is more out there for them, bigger success just around the corner, greater achievement just waiting in the wings. I've put a lot of investment in time and money in finding out the best way to get your life and business on track.
I've distilled my philosophy into a short email course that I'd like you to have. Over seven days, I will send you an email with a short video and information about 7 key success principles for high achievement.
If you work with these principles over time they will raise your awareness and ultimately bring you greater results. They will help you to become more so that you can achieve more.
What Does This Involve?
There will be a daily video and explanation for 7 days, sharing the key principles and suggesting some daily actions. There will also be occasional emails to help prompt you to take action. If you miss a day, there will be a link to all of the summaries on the bottom of each email, so simply pick up where you left off! If you want to do the course over 7 weeks you can! Just focus on a lesson a week.
What Will You Learn?
- Key Principles For Success
- Why it is ESSENTIAL to have a clear vision of your future
- Tips on identifying and setting your goals
- Invaluable information to help you understand why how you think affects what you achieve
- Examples of how mindset influences success and achievement
- How to be "luckier"!
- How to get more disciplined so you keep on track
- Building your network and how it can help you
- Idea and tools to help you succeed and achieve your goals
Just click on the link and enter your name and email address in the simple form. We take your privacy very seriously, so we don't pass your information on to anyone else.
You will also receive, with our compliments, a free subscription to Be More. Achieve More newsletters and occasional communications. All of which come from the core intention of providing you with the inspiration, courage and confidence to achieve more.
Be More.Achieve More.
Chris